Two officers responded to a call about a suicidal man with a knife at a home in the Victoria Park neighborhood.

Officers Lauren Mager and Cherilyn Valenzuela said that Jeffrey Lowry, 43 and drunk, refused to drop the knife and charged at them as they were standing on his front porch.

The officers fired, killing him.
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Susan Lowry, who was watching from a neighbor's yard, said that her husband was not armed. She told reporters that a neighbor had removed the butcher knife from Lowry's hand and had taken all of the knives from the house, except for a butter knife.

She said that the officers had no reason to fire what she estimated were six rounds.

Susan Lowry filed a civil suit against the city and the officers. Both officers were exonerated by a citizens review board in 2016.